 Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Today I am going to show you how I open a young Thai coconut. I love eating and drinking the juice from a young Thai coconut and sometimes they're hard to find but I have been finding them lately a little more economically in North Carolina so I've started to use them. I don't really like the taste of a young Thai coconut from the bottle that's been pasteurized so I prefer the young Thai coconut. So what you see here is I have unraveled the plastic and taken the contents off and I've started to cut the young Thai coconut. You lay it on on its side and you use a very sharp knife and you cut the top layer of the coconut off all around the point until you have exposed the brown portion of the coconut and what will happen is you will start to see a seam that will allow you to use the knife to pop the top off of the coconut and expose the water and the meat of the coconut. You'll just see it here in just a minute when I get to that point of trying to get all of the extra white pith off for you know for a lack of a better term but you want to get that off it takes just a minute to get it all off and in just a second I'm going to show you the what it looks like at the top. Do you see that seam around the top where I'm pointing to it's like a little line around the outside of the coconut well that's what you're looking for and you take your knife the corner of your knife and you hit it and you kind of score it a little bit this one was a little bit easier sometimes you have to use your knife to hit it a few times and then the lid pops off of this one the lid flew across the room so I had to go get it I'm not going to use the meat on it so but you see how what it looks like I'm not going to remove the meat on this particular coconut but I am going to strain the water out so that you can just see the juice and I may drink the juice and there you see the inside of the coconut that's what the meat looks like and maybe in another video I will share with you how to get the meat out but there you have it there is the fresh coconut water I use stainless steel straws which I'll leave a link down below if you are interested what I do is I buy the coconuts in bulk so nine comes in a case and typically I can get them from anywhere from 250 to 225 each also if I'm not ready to drink the coconut water right away I will crack open the coconut and strain it like you saw in the video here and I will put it in a glass jar like I did showing here this is a 16 ounce jar and most coconuts you can get from one and a half cups to two and a half cups of coconut water depending on how big the coconut is I recommend drinking coconuts as much as possible as they are very hydrating for the body and also great for healing any type of inflammatory condition such as final fibroids diabetes high blood pressure heart disease you name it coconut water is good for it so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend don't forget to subscribe and until next time y'all talk soon much love